I might also do an Internet search for the individual authors to determine whether they have a reputation for objectivity or bias on the subject matter of their writing. 2. If you were going to begin a database search on the topic of the relationship between individualism and the portrait genre, what search terms would you use? What are the most significant terms here? The ones you could NOT leave out? If you searched "individualism" would this be sufficient?

Searching for "individualism" alone would not be sufficient because a search for that term in isolation would generate all sorts of information that would have nothing necessarily to do with the topic of portrait genre or art. I would not leave out any of those terms but I would search for them in a specific order rather than in a single search of all of them in combination. I might search first for "portrait" + "genre" and then I would search for "individualism" only within those results. That strategy would allow me to search for references to individualism that are relevant to art and relevant to genres of portrait art in particular.

3. When you are using a source, do you need to cite the source if you put the information into your own words? Define and explain plagiarism, and discuss the correct way to use information from a secondary source.

Yes. One must always provide a citation for any idea that is the idea of another person. Paraphrasing the author's words is perfectly acceptable but only if an appropriate reference is provided. Failing to do that is intentional plagiarism when the writer knows that the ideas of others must always be referenced to their sources; it is...

In principle, any un-credited ideas or analyses must be those of the writer and only historical facts that are widely known need not be credited.
4. Describe the process you went though to locate and choose the article you used in Part 2 above.

I used the exact strategy that described: First I searched for "portrait" + "art." That search generated results, some of which were websites that were appropriate sources of information about different genres of art. Within those results, I then searched for the term "individualism" and "individualist" and that search generated results that allowed me to choose an appropriate article on the topic of the relationship between individualism and the portrait genre.

5. Find a book on any aspect of Native American creation myths, and explain how you would order that book from the library to come to your home.

First, I went to Amazon.com and searched for the phrase "Native American creation myths." That search generated results that allowed me to compare various books and to read the tables of contents as well as selected pages from some of them. I started with Amazon because I wanted a broader range of results than might be available at the library. After deciding on the book Native American Creation Myths by Jeremiah Curtin (Dover Books, 2004), I used the library search function to find that book and then I followed the website instructions to order the book for delivery.